Bookbinding Elements
LONDON WORKSHOPS
These hands-on sessions will give you the knowledge and skills required to make traditional and bookart bindings from scratch with little or no previous experience.
Each course will have no more than 10 pupils and in addition to the tutor, a Workshop Assitant will be present at all times to lend a hand where needed.
These modules will be held at Southampton Row on Saturdays from 10am to 5pm with a 30 minute lunch break.
£120(inc VAT) per course with a £9 material fee.
Elements 1 - TRADITIONAL BOOKBINDING
A full day course combining Modules E1 & E2
Elements 2 - BOOKARTS
A full day course combining Modules E1, E3 & E4
Elements 3 - PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS
A full day course combining Modules E1 & E5
Modules
E1 - Little Black Book
In this session we will spend a little time discussion and demonstrating the essential techniques and theories of bookbinding and explore the materials and their properties in detail. We will make a simple limp pamphlet style binding where cutting, collating, sewing and gluing skills will be used.
E2 - Journal
A hard-bound traditional six-section case binding. Using our knowledge from Module 1, we will move on to produce a quarter-cloth case binding (cloth spine and decorative paper boards). In addition to the skills learned in E1 we will learn how (and why) to make a rounded spine using a backing hammer, how to sew multiple sections of paper together to make a book block and how to use a Vertical Plough to trim your book. A variety of cloths and papers will be available to create a book unique to yourself. The journal will be finished with a leather label to the cover which you will produce on the gold blocking machine.
E3 - Leather Sketch Book
This leather wrap around book will be made using Hide, a thick & sturdy leather. The pages will be folded and cut using a paper knife to create deckled edged signatures which will be sewn into the leather giving us an decorative, exposed stitched spine with out using any glues.
E4 - Japanese Note Book
Using a bookbinders hammer and a Japanese Stab Awl, we will make a traditional Japanese style notebook with a hinged hard cover and an exposed decorative sewn spine. They will be covered in beautiful Chiyogami decorative papers of your choice.
E5 - Photograph Album
We will create a traditional photograph album from scratch using folding, collating, sewing and gluing skills. Each page will feature 'guards' that stop the album from swelling when filled with photos. The spine will be rounded using a backing hammer. This will then be bound into a quarter cloth case using a variety of materials from Europe and Japan. The album will be finished with a leather label to the cover which you will produce on the gold blocking machine.
When any of the courses are purchased you qualify for for a 10% discount online or in store on all purchases made at Southampton Row for 1 year.
Also coming soon
Learn how to make simple and effective repairs to books with a professional Conservator and Restoration expert. An introduction to various print techniques including screen, etching and lino A series of workshops teaching how to make presentation boxes and portfolios Various workshops teaching you about the construction of fascinators and hats
Explore the basics of this craft
Learn the ancient Japanese craft of folding
For further information and to register your interest please email Riikka on rk@bookbinding.co.uk
Tutor Opportunity
We are looking for tutors to expand on our existing roster. If you feel that you would be interested in a unique and fun opportunity please contact William on wpm@bookbinding.co.uk or on 07801 070852
Wiltshire Masterclass Courses
Shepherds are running a series of tuition courses at our countryside bindery in Witshire.
The content will reflect the skills required to bind a book from beginning to end and will cover all aspects therein.
These one and two day Masterclasses will be held by a variety of tutors, many of them our own specialist craftspeople from the Sangorski & Sutcliffe Bindery; some of the finest exponents of their individual skill sets in the world.
From various sewing techniques including advanced headbanding to sewing and collating, to forwarding in cloth, leather, silk and leather doubleurs, gold tooling and finishing, onlays and slip-case & box making.
